<p>Hmm. I’d be surprised if you couldn’t train monkeys to solder or take apart a video game console. Excellent skill, of course, but not really an engineering skill. Why did you replace the chip and what does it do? Do you know how the chip works? That might be a start.</p>
<p>Also, building computers and replacing video cards (or any perhipheral, for that matter) does not require an engineering degree. I’ve got friends in the business shool, communications school, as well as the education school who have no problems replacing anything in their computers. Or building them. And I go to a pretty mediocre school, its not MIT by any stretch. It really doesn’t require any knowledge (well, they are probably unaware of potential static electricity issues) that would be helpful towards computer engineering. Sorry to be so harsh, but its the truth.</p>